Posted: 2/24/18 at 10:48pm
"You there....why are you so late..." Norma at the top of the stairs. Chills.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 12:12pm
Leading player shadow/walking through curtain in the recent pippin revival.
the adult woman (camryn manheim's role) walking down the stairs as "Mamma Who Bore Me" begins in the Spring Awakening revival
Anatol in Great Comet
Posted: 2/25/18 at 12:16pm
Posted: 2/25/18 at 12:49pm
Cervantes being brought into the prison by the Spanish Guards in the original Man of La Mancha.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 2:50pm
My #1 is When Hamilton appears in the first song -- always chills every time I've seen it.
Hedwig.
Dolly in the title song.
Also, Janet McTeer's entrance in the revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses revival was pretty damn great.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 2:53pm
Posted: 2/25/18 at 5:24pm
Posted: 2/25/18 at 5:28pm
Helene's entrance for "Charming" in GREAT COMET was fabulous.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 5:31pm
The two best parts of an otherwise pretty dreadful show was Christine Ebersole appearing at the top of those pink stairs exclaiming "she's here", and Patti Lupone walking on stage exclaiming "It's so wonderful to be back in Manhattan!"
Posted: 2/25/18 at 5:52pm
I graciously add the entrance of The Leading Player (Ben Vereen) in the original Bob Fosse's direction / choreography of Pippin: a haunting musical vamp followed by the reveal of a wall of just hands moving to the curious music. Then through the darkness we meet The Leading Player. Brilliant. Breathtaking.
BTW... loved the revival too, but the original entrance was, as the song said, "magic".
Posted: 2/25/18 at 10:36pm
Al Pacino as Teach in American Buffalo. F***in Ruthie. F***in Ruthie...... Can't ever forget it.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 10:42pm
Circle of Life in The Lion King and Alexander Hamilton's entrance in Hamilton.
Posted: 2/25/18 at 11:44pm
Joanna Lumley in La Bête. Unforgettable.
Posted: 2/26/18 at 1:12am
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Posted: 2/26/18 at 6:29am
Posted: 2/26/18 at 7:30am
Re: "Sing out, Louise!" (which by the way was not in the original script. It was handwritten in by Merman. Whether it was her idea or she wrote in an add from the creative team is unclear)...
Does Rose always enter from the back of the theatre down one of the aisles? Did Angela, Tyne, Bernadette and Patti all do that?
Posted: 2/26/18 at 7:47am
Posted: 2/26/18 at 8:26am
Bettyboy72 said: ""You there....why are you so late..." Norma at the top of the stairs. Chills."
Posted: 2/26/18 at 8:31am
chewy5000 said: "I'm so glad someone already mentioned TIMBUKTU"
I had no prior knowledge of that, but it was pretty damn fabulous. "I AM HERE."
Posted: 2/26/18 at 8:31am
Posted: 2/26/18 at 11:29pm
ARTc3 said: "I graciously add the entrance of The Leading Player (Ben Vereen) in the original Bob Fosse's direction / choreography of Pippin: ahaunting musical vamp followed by the reveal of a wall of just hands moving to the curious music. Then through the darkness we meet The Leading Player. Brilliant. Breathtaking.
BTW... loved the revival too, but the original entrance was, as the song said, "magic"."
I was just today thinking about PIPPIN and remembered this thread. I loved the entrance of the LP and the other leads in the revival. I saw the show a few weeks after the Tonys so I knew what to expect from the curtain drop but was still wow'ed.
Posted: 2/26/18 at 11:34pm
Bernadette in Follies
Bernadette/CZJ in A Little Night Music
Bernadette in Gypsy
Bernadette in Hello, Dolly!
Bernadette in Sunday
Posted: 2/27/18 at 12:10am
I don't think any entrance in Broadway history tops Dolly at Harmonia Gardens but a few others I like:
- I think Bye Bye Birdie is really well constructed with the slow reveal of Conrad Birdie. The first time we meet him (in "Healthy Normal American Boy"
, he doesn't even speak. Then finally after more than half an act talking about him, we finally get to hear him in "Honestly Sincere"
- I've also always been fond of the Witch's entrance in Into the Woods
- The Phantom at the end of "Masquerade
